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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    3:18 pm
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    @@@@@It's the coal mines in open air, it jars at his back and in a thousand, a million tiny jounces, his kidneys begin to go and his stomach is too tricky in the morning to chance breakfastMaybe there has been one park bench too many, maybe there was too much rain in too many open places, but the truck route is no goodThe last hundred miles he always drives with his teeth clenchedHe drinks a lot, drifting along the bars on Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and sometimes he spends his free time in one movie house after another, the tawdry second-runs on 42nd Street
    One night in a bar he buys an ordinary seaman's card for ten bucks from a drunk who is about to go under, and he quits his jobBut after a week of hanging around South Street, he gets tired of it and goes on a long drunkAfter a week, when his money is gone, he sells the seaman's card for five bucks and keeps going for an afternoon on the whisky it buys
    He wakes up that night in an alley with a blood crust on his cheekWhen he grimaces he can feel the crust shredding into cracksA cop picks him up and sends him to Bellevue, where he is kept for two days, and when he gets out he panhandles for a couple of weeks
    But there is the happy endingHe catches a job finally as a dishwasher in a fancy restaurant in the East Sixties, and he gets friendly with a waitress there, ends up by living with her in a couple of furnished rooms on West 27th StreetShe has an eight-year-old kid who likes Red, and they get along well for a couple of years

    Red switches to a job as night clerk in one of the flophouses on the BoweryIt's easier than dishwashing, and pays him five bucks more, twenty-three a weekHe holds on to it for the last two years before the war, drifting along through the liquid fetid heat of summer in the Bowery and the chill damp winters when the walls leak and the brown plaster becomes stained with grayLong nights pass in which he thinks of nothing, listening dully to the periodic wrangling passage of the trains on the Third Avenue el, waiting for the morning so he can go home to Lois
    Several times a night he passes through the main room where forty or fifty men are sleeping uneasily on their iron cots, and he listens to the constant soft coughing and smells the harsh styptic formalin and the bodies of the old drunks, a crabbed smell, glum and souredThe hallways and the bathroom stink of disinfectant, and over the urinals there is almost always a drunk retching his liquor, holding dreamily to the porcelain near the flush leverHe closes the door and goes into the card room, where a few old men are playing pinochle around an old round table, the floor under them black with grease and cigarette endsRed listens to their talk, mumbled and unfinished
    Maggie Kennedy was a fine figure of a woman, she said to me, now, what was it she said?
    I told Tommy Muldoon he had no call to be running me in, and when I got done, he let me go I'll tell you thatThey're afraid of me ever since I broke Ricchio's jaw, you know he was the precinct sergeant, back in, well, now wait a minute and I'll tell you the date, I broke his jaw with one punch back in a New Year's night eight year ago, 1924 it was, no, wait a moment back in 1933 that's closer to itHey, you rummies, pipe down goddammit we got some paying guests in the next room
    They're silent for a moment and then one of them says in his low mumbling voice, You ain't so smart, young feller, and ifen you don't shut your mouth I'll be obliged to whop y
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    3:23 pm
    @@@@@ In the evening she wore her most becoming
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    In the evening she wore her most becoming gown and her pearls for
    supper, in case he was coming some other wayThe long table
    stretched
    before her gleaming with silver and heavy damask starched to a shine
    It was then that she began to drink steadily-to shut out the silence
    while she listened for his footstepsShe didn't think anything of it
    when she began having sherry in the afternoon-after all, taking a glass
    or two of sherry was a ladylike thing to doAnd she hardly noticed
    when she changed from sherry to whiskey or when she first needed
    a
    drink to do the store accounts because it depressed her that business
    was falling off so or when she began leaving the food on her plate
    because alcohol satisfied her hunger better or when she began to
    take a glass of brandy as soon as she got up in the morning
    She hardly even noticed when summer became fallPansy brought
    the
    afternoon mail to the bedroom on a trayLately Scarlett had tried
    sleeping for a while after dinnerIt filled up part of the empty
    afternoon, and it gave her some rest, a relief denied to her at
    night
    "You want I should bring you a pot of coffee or something, Miss
    Scarlett?"
    "No Scarlett took the topmost letter and Aunt
    Eulalie always wrote on both sides of the thin paper, and often she
    "crossed" the letter, writing on the page then turning it to a right
    angle and writing across the previous lines
    All to say a great deal about precious littleThe unseasonably warm
    autumn she said that every year Aunt Pauline having trouble
    with her knee she'd had trouble with her knee as long as Scarlett
    could remember a visit to Sister Mary Joseph
    Scarlett made a faceShe couldn't think of her baby sister Carreen by
    her religious name, even though she'd been in the convent in
    Charleston
    for eight years the bake sale for the Cathedral building fund was
    far behind schedule because contributions were not coming in, and
    couldn't Scarlett-great balls of fire! She kept the roof over her
    aunts' heads, did she have to roof a cathedral, too? She turned the
    page over, frowningRhett's name leapt from the tangle of
    criss-crossed wordsIt does one's heart good to see a cheri'he'd'hend
    like Eleanor Butler find happiness after so many sorr
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    3:26 pm
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    Bourne remembered the newspaper headlines of only weeks ago, as he stared at the face of the
    young American“Go for the Legion,” he said
    “If push comes to shove, MrFran?ois, could I use you as a reference?”
    “It wouldn’t help you, young man, it might only hurtIf you’re pressed, just tell the truthIt’s
    your credentials
    “Aussi bien! He knows the LegionThey will not take maniacs if they can help it, but they—how
    do you say it, omega replica watches Fran?ois?”
    “Look the other way, I thinkThey look the other way when there are—encore, Francois?”
    “When there are extenuating circumstances
    “See? My friend Francois also has brainsI wonder how he survived
    “By not showing them, Maurice
    A waiter wearing about the filthiest apron Jason had ever seen clapped the Belgian on the neck
    “So?” shrugged Tank ShirtQuelle différence? We eat and with good
    fortune we will not be poisoned
    Two rolex submariner replica hours later, with four bottles of rough vin ordinaire consumed by Maurice and Ralph, along
    with suspicious fish, Le Coeur du Soldat settled in for its nightly endurance ritualFights occurred
    episodically, broken up by muscular waitersThe blaring music marshaled memories of battles won
    and lost, engendering arguments between old soldiers who had basically been the assault troops,
    cannon fodder, at once resentful and filled with the cheap rolex pride of survival because they had survived the
    blood and horror their gold-braided superiors knew nothing aboutIt was the collective roar of the
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    and VietnamThe properly uniformed officers decreed from far behind the lines, and the foot
    soldiers died to preserve their superiors’ wisdomBourne remembered Saigon and could not fault
    the chanel classic bag existence of Le Coeur du Soldat
    The head bartender, a massive bald man with steel-rimmed glasses, picked up a telephone
    concealed below the far end of the bar and brought it to his earJason watched him between the
    roving figuresThe man’s eyes spun around the crowded room—what he heard appeared to be
    important; what he saw, dismissibleHe spoke briefly, plunged his hand below the bar and kept it
    there for several moments; he had chanel purses dia
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    3:26 pm
    @@@@@ "I thought you said all Miss Eastlake's
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    "I thought you said all Miss Eastlake's siblings
    were dead
    "They are, but she has nieces and nephews and
    grandnieces and grandnephewsLike Sherwin-
    Williams Paint, they cover the earthThey're the
    ones doing the squabbling, but they squabble with
    each other, not herHer only mention in the old
    man's multiple wills had to do with this piece of
    Duma Key, which was carefully marked off by two
    surveying companies, one just before World War II
    229
    and one just afterThis is all a matter of public
    recordAnd do you know what, amigo?"
    I shook my head
    "Miss Eastlake thinks that's exactly what her old
    man wanted to happenAnd, having cast my lawyerly
    eye over copies of the wills, so do I
    "Who pays the taxes?"
    He looked surprised, then laughed"I enjoy you
    more and more, vato
    "My other life," I reminded himI was already
    liking the sound of that other-life thingThen you'll appreciate this," he saidAll three of John Eastlake's last
    wills and testaments contained identical clauses
    setting up a trust fund to pay the taxesThe
    original investment company administering the
    trust has been absorbed since then - in fact the
    absorbing company has been absorbed-"
    "It's the way America does business," I saidIn any case, the fund has never
    been in danger of going broke and the taxes are
    paid like clockwork every year
    "Money talks, bullshit walks
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    "It's the truth He stood up, put his hands in
    the small of his back, and twisted it"Would you
    like to come up to the house and meet the boss?
    She should be arising from her nap just about now
    She has her problems, but even at eighty-five
    she's quite the babe
    This wasn't the time to tell him I thought I
    already had met her - briefly - courtesy of my
    answering machineWhen the hilarity
    subsides"Walk down tomorrow afternoon, if you
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    3:18 pm
    @@@@@The short row of double cabinets, the sink
    @@@@@The short row of double cabinets, the sink where the Healer was washing her
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    “First things first,” Knits Fire said cheerfullyShe pulled a cabinet openI tried to focus my
    eyes, knowing this was importantThe cabinet was full of rows and rows of stacked white
    cylindersShe took one down, reaching for it without searching; she knew what she wanted
    The small container had a label, but I couldn't read it“A little no pain should help, don't you
    think?”
    I saw the label again as she twisted the lid offo Pain? Was that what it
    said?
    “Open your mouth, Glass SpiresShe took a small, thin square–it looked like tissue paper–and laid it on my tongueIt
    dissolved at onceI swallowed automatically
    “Better?” the Healer askedMy my head was clear–I could concentrate without difficultyThe pain
    had melted away with the tiny square
    “I know you feel fine now, but please don't moveYour injuries are not treated yet
    “Cerulean, could you get us some water? Her mouth seems dry
    “At once, Healer Knits
    The older woman left the room
    The Healer turned back to her cabinets, opening a different one this timeThis, too, was filled
    with white containers She pulled one from the top of a stack, then took another
    from the other side
    Almost as if she were trying to help me fulfill my mission, she listed the names as she reached
    for them
    “Clean–inside and out… Heal… Seal… And where is… ah, SmoothDon't want a scar on that
    pretty face, do we?”
    “Ah… n
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    3:18 pm
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    They lifted two boxes from the pile in the boat, and began to walk back to the supply dump"Boy, I can't stand this," Minetta omega replica watches burst out angrily"I'm losing all my ambition
    "You think I'm just a fug-off, don't you?" Minetta asked"You ought to seen me back when I was a civilianI knew how to dress, I had an interest in life, I was always the leader in everything I didI could be a noncom now if I wanted to buck for stripes, suck the way Stanley does, but it ain't worth itYou tiffany toggle heart got your self-respect
    "What do ya get worked up for?" Polack asked"You know I was makin' a hundred fifty a week, and I had my own carI was in with Lefty Rizzo, but 'in' There wasn't a dame in the world I couldn't make, models, actresses, good-lookin' twotsAnd all I'd work would be twenty hours a week, no, wait it was twenty-five, about four hours gucci ladies watches a night from five to nine, six nights a week, just collectin' the receipts from the numbers and turnin' them inYou hear me bitchin' now? Listen, it's all in the turn of the cards," Polack said, "all in the turnThe way to figure it is you're layin' low now, you're takin' it easy
    Polack was about twenty-one, Minetta figuredHe wondered if he was daytona rolex lying about the moneyIt always made Minetta uncomfortable to realize that he never knew what went on in Polack's head, while Polack always seemed to guess what he was thinking aboutNot knowing what to answer, he attacked Polack"Just laying low, huh? You got in the Army 'cause you wanted to?"
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    3:22 pm
    @@@@@Why had she let it happen, let Rhett's
    @@@@@Why had she let it
    happen,
    let Rhett's brother revile her and put his hands and his mouth on her?
    I
    should have spit in his face, clawed him blind, hit his nasty, foul
    mouth with my fistsBut I didn't, I just took it-as if I deserved it,
    as if it was trueScarlett had never been so ashamedShamed by
    Ross' words, shamed by her own weaknessShe felt defiled, dirty,
    and
    eternally humiliatedBetter if Ross had hit her, or cut her with a
    knifeHer body would recover from a bruise or a woundBut her
    pride
    would never be healed from the sickness she feltEleanor leaned over
    her, tried to put her arms around her, but Scarlett shrank from her
    touch
    "Leave me alone!" she tried to shout, but it came out a moan"I
    won't," said MrsButler, "not until you listen to meYou've got to
    understand, Scarlett, you have to hear meThere's so much you don't
    knowAre you listening?" She drew a chair close to Scarlett's, sat
    in it, only inches away Scarlett put her hands over
    her ears"I won't leave you," said Eleanor
    "And I'll tell you-again and again, a thousand times if need be-until
    you hear me Her voice went on and on, gentle but insistent,
    while her hand stroked Scarlett's bent head-comforting, caring,
    insinuating her kindness and her love through Scarlett's refusal to
    hear her"What Ross did was unpardonable," she said, "I don't ask
    you
    to forgive himHe is my son, and I know the
    pain in him that made him do itHe wasn't trying to hurt you, my
    dearIt was Rhett he was attacking through you; he knows, you see,
    that Rhett is too strong for him, that he'll never be able to match Rhett
    in anythingRhett reaches out and takes what he wants, he makes
    things
    happen, he gets things doneAnd poor Ross is a failure at
    everythi
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
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    would be a fortress, employing every human and electronic security device that loyalty and high
    technology could provideAnd the seemingly isolated, all but deserted, section of the outlying
    fifteenth arrondissement served his purposes far better than any crowded section of the cityFor
    that reason, Bourne had first paid a drunken tramp to walk with him during his initial foray past the
    houses, he himself limping unsteadily in the shadows beside his companion; and for his louis vuitton discount second
    appraisal, he had hired a middle-aged whore as his cover, with no limp or stagger in his gaitHe
    knew the terrain now, for all the good it did him, but it was the beginning of the endHe swore
    himself to that!
    The waiter arrived with his espresso and the cognac, and only when Jason placed a hundredfranc
    note on the table, accompanied by a wave of his hand, did the man’s hostile countenance
    move to neutral ground
    “Is there a pay phone nearby?” asked Bourne, removing an additional ten-franc note
    “Down the street, fifty, sixty meters,” replied the waiter, his eyes on the new wallet chanel money
    “Nothing closer?” Jason peeled off another note, twenty francs“I’m calling right here within a
    few blocks
    “Come with me,” said the aproned gar?on, gingerly picking up the franc notes and leading
    Bourne through the open doors of the café to a cashier seated on high at the far end of the
    restaurantThe gaunt, sallow-faced woman looked annoyed; obviously she assumed that Bourne
    was a discontented customer
    “Let him use your telephone,” said the waiter
    “Why?” spat out the harridan“So he can call China?”
    “He calls up the street
    Jason proffered a ten-franc note, his innocent tiffany's jewelry eyes looking blankly at the highly suspicious
    woman“Augh, take it,” she said, removing a phone from under her cash-register stand and
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    266
    grasping the money“It has an extension so you can move to the wall, as they all doMen! Business
    and the bed, it’s all you think about!”
    He dialed the Pont-Royal and asked for his room, expecting Bernardine to pick up on the first or
    second ringBy the fourth, he was concerned; by the eighth, he was profoundly disturbed
    Bernardine was not there! Had Santos ? No, the Deuxième veteran was armed and prada clutch knew how to
    use his “deterrence”—there would have been at the least loud gunfire, at the last a room blown
    apart by a grenadeBernardine had left under his own controlWhy?
    There could be any one of several reasons, thought Bourne, handing back the telephone and
    returning to his table outsideThe first and most wished for was news of Marie; the old intelligence
    officer would not raise false hopes by detailing the nets he had spread throughout the city, but they
    were there, Jason was sure of itBourne could not think of another reason, so it was best not to
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    276
    How to Draw a Picture (IV)
    Start with what you know, then re-invent itArt
    is magic, no argument there, but all art, no
    matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday
    Just don't be surprised when weird flowers sprout
    from common soilNo one
    taught her; she learned for herself
    The more she drew, the more she sawThe more she
    saw, the more she wanted to drawAnd the more she saw, the more her language
    came back to her: first the four or five hundred
    words she knew on the day she fell from the cart
    and struck her head, then many, many more
    Daddy was amazed by the rapidly cartier santos 100 growing
    sophistication of her picturesSo were her
    sisters - both the Big Meanies and the twins (not
    Adie; Adie was in Europe with three friends and
    two trusty chaperones - Emery Paulson, the young
    man she'll marry, had not yet come on the scene)
    The nanny/housekeeper was awed by her, called her
    la petite obéah fille
    The doctor who attended her case cautioned that
    the little girl must be very careful about
    277
    exercise and excitement lest she take a fever, but
    by January of 1926 she was coursing everywhere on
    the south end of the Key, carrying her pad and
    bundled up in chanel handbags sale her "puddy jacket and thumpums,"
    drawing everything
    That was the winter she saw her family grow bored
    with her work - Big Meanies Maria and Hannah first,
    then Tessie and Lo-Lo, then Daddy, then even Nan
    MeldaDid she understand that even genius palls,
    when taken in large doses? Perhaps, in some
    instinctive child's way, she did
    What came next, the outgrowth of their boredom,
    was a determination to make them see the wonder of
    what she saw by re-inventing it
    Her surrealist phase began; first the birds flying
    upside-down, then the animals walking on water,
    then the Smiling replica tiffany jewelry Horses that brought her a small
    measure of renownAnd that was when something
    changedThat was when something dark slipped in,
    using little Libbit as its channel
    She began to draw her doll, and when she did, her
    doll began to talk
    278
    By then Adriana was back from Gay Paree, and to
    begin with, Noveen mostly spoke in Adie's high and
    happy lah-de-dah voice, asking Elizabeth if she
    could hinky-dinky-parley-voo and telling her to
    ferramay her bushSometimes Noveen sang her to
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    and round and all brown except for the red lips -
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    Noveen sings Frere Jacques, frere Jacques, are you
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    But then Noveen's voice changedIt stopped being
    Adie's voiceIt stopped being the voice of anyone
    Elizabeth knew, and it went right on talking even
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    3:18 pm
    @@@@@I ain't goin' back to thatThey'll shoot me
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    Her eyes opened and her black chanel tote head lifted to meet the dimly sensed
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    "Take a deep breath," Rhett commanded
    He put his big hand over her nose and mouth and dove under the
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    vii
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    “Very fine indeed,” said Miss Crawford, laughing“It must do the
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    thing, and what nobody likes; and if the good people who
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    time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten
    76
    Mansfield Park
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    of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped
    with joy and envyCannot you imagine with what unwilling feelings
    the former belles of the house of Rushworth did many a time
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    at—and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even
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    “The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance,
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    MrCrawford smiled his acquiescence, and stepping forward to
    Maria, said, in a voice which she only could hear, “I do not like to
    77
    Jane Austen
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    “I hope your ladyship is pleased with the game
    “Oh dear, yes! very entertaining indeedI do
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    “Bertram,” said Crawford, some time afterwards, taking the opportunity
    of a little languor in the game, “I have never told you
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    hunting together, and were in the midst of a good run, and at some
    distance from Mansfield, when his horse being found to have flung
    a shoe, Henry Crawford had been obliged to give up, and make the
    best of his way back“I told you I lost my way after passing that old
    farmhouse with the yew-trees, because I can never bear to ask; but I
    have not told you that, with my usual luck—for I never do wrong
    without gaining by it—I found myself in due time in the very place
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    half a gentleman’s house to be seen excepting one—to be presumed
    209
    Jane Austen
    the Parsonage—within a stone’s throw of the said knoll and churchI
    found myself, in short, in Thornton Lacey
    “It sounds like it,” said Edmund; “but which way did you turn
    after passing Sewell’s farm?”
    “I answer no such irrelevant and insidious questions; though were
    I to answer all that you could put in the course of an hour, you
    would never be able to prove that it was not Thornton Lacey—for
    such it certainly was
    “You inquired, then?”
    “No, I never inquireBut I told a man mending a hedge that it
    was Thornton Lacey, and he agreed to it
    “You have a good memoryI had forgotten having ever told you
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    “Well,” continued Edmund, “and how did you like what you saw?”
    “Very much indeedYou are a lucky fellowThere will be work for
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    “No, no, not so bad as thatThe farmyard must be moved, I grant
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    “The farmyard must be cleared away entirely, and planted up to
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    mean, must be on that side, where the view is really very pretty; I
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